Brought out of sleep

Foreca ast is in for new weath herman

WIN News has announced the app pointment of broadcaster Adam Straney as its new network weather presenter. Adam has a long-established me edia career and joins the WIN News team to deliver comprehensive weather r reports across the network. WIN’s director of news Stella La auri welcomed Adam to the WIN News team. “Weather has always been integr rg al to the WIN News bulletins. From the coast to inland Australia, our viewers re ely on comprehensive detailed local coverage of the weather,” Ms Lauri said. “Our regional and rural viewers re ely on accurate weather information as part of their daily lives, an nd we take great pride in ensuring we deliver it every weekd day in a comprehensive and informative way across the ne etwork. “Adam has been entrenched in loca al communities across Australia’s east and knows firsth hand how weather impacts the regions. He will be a great addition to the WIN News team.” Mr Straney is looking forward to o his new role. “I’m really excited about the opportunity to bring the weather to so many lounge rooms across regional and rural Australia each weeknight as part of the WIN News team,” Mr S Straney said. Mr Straney brings strong expe erience from radio, having previously been a pro ogram director with Southern Cross Austereo and most recently a breakfast anchor with Wave FM on the NSW south coast. WIN News airs weeknights in Gi ippsland at 5.30pm.

Fresh face: Adam Straney is the new WIN News weather presenter. photograph supplied

A penny for your thoughts on list of banished words

SOME new words and phrases have made it onto the latest list of Banished Words. L a k e S u p e r i o r S t a t e University’s in the United States releases its tongue-in-cheek Banished Words List annually, announcing the results on December 31 to start the New Year on the right foot, er, tongue. Each year the University receives submissions from across the globe. Common parlance dominated submissions for the past 12 months. More than 1000 of the 1250-plus nominations of words and terms for banishment for misuse, overuse, and uselessness for 2022 were colloquial. The number one offender was: “Wait, what?” These two four-letter words should not go together under any circumstances, according to many nominators and the contest judges from the LSSU English Department, because the two-part halting interrogative is disingenuous, divergent, deflective, and other damning words that begin with the letter d. “Most people speak through informal discourse. Most people shouldn’t misspeak through informal discourse. That’s the distinction nominators far and wide made, and our judges agreed with them,” said Peter Szatmary, executive director of marketing and communications at LSSU. “Also, seven of the 10 words and terms that LSSU banished last year reflected real-world concerns about COVID-19, while three could be categorised as quotidian. This year, as the global pandemic persists along with adaptations to it, the inverse occurred. Seven of the 10 words and terms to be banished are more conversational-based, with the other three applying to the coronavirus. “One possible takeaway from all this about the act and art and science of disclosing something is the more things change, the more things stay the same. At the very least, it’s complicated.” Lake Superior State University has compiled an annual Banished Words List since 1976 to uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are overworked, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical - and otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating. Examples of past winners (or should that be losers?) to make the yearly compilation are: “detente”, “surely”, “classic”, “bromance” and “COVID-19,” plus “wrap my head around”, “user friendly”, “at this point in time”, “not so much” and “viable alternative.”

2022 Banished Words

1. WAIT, WHAT? 2. NO WORRIES 3. AT THE END OF THE DAY 4.THAT BEING SAID 5. ASKING FOR A FRIEND 6. CIRCLE BACK 7. DEEP DIVE 8. NEW NORMAL 9.YOU’RE ON MUTE 10. SUPPLY CHAIN